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Panggilan Darah (Call of Blood) is a film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) written and directed by Sutan Usman Karim and produced by Tjho Seng Han for Oriental Film. Released on 30 June 1941, the black-and-white film starred Dhalia and Soerip as orphaned sisters trying to make a living in the colonial capital of Batavia (now Jakarta) as housemaids for a man named Iskak, before moving to Kudus to work at a clove cigarette factory. They later discover that they are Iskak's nieces, and are welcomed into his home. Panggilan Darah, shot on location at an orphanage and two factories in central Java, was a modest commercial success in the Indies and Singapore. The acting drew critical praise, and the soundtrack, with nine kroncong songs, was mentioned favorably. Despite this success, Oriental was unable to meet its expenses, and merged into Multi Film soon afterwards. Panggilan Darah, which was screened as late as 1952, may now be lost. (Full article...)

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In sailing, the America's Cup concludes with Team New Zealand defeating Oracle Team USA.
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The World Health Organization estimates that 200,000 people in Yemen have been infected with cholera.
At least 10 people are killed and more than 90 others are missing following a landslide in Sichuan, China.
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June 30

Tower Bridge, London

1860 – Seven months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, several prominent British scientists and philosophers participated in an evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum.
1894 – London's Tower Bridge (pictured), a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames, opened.
1934 – Adolf Hitler violently purged members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), its leader Ernst Röhm, and other political rivals in the Night of the Long Knives, executing at least 85 people.
1963 – A car bomb intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco killed seven police and military officers near Palermo.
1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduced the Canadian one-dollar coin, commonly known as the Loonie.

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The current 400-series highway network in Southern Ontario

The 400-series highways are a network of controlled-access highways throughout the southern portion of the Canadian province of Ontario, forming a special subset of the provincial highway system. They are analogous to the Interstate Highway System in the United States or the Autoroute system of neighbouring Quebec, but under provincial jurisdiction and regulated by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO). Although Ontario had been constructing divided highways for two decades prior, 400-series designations were introduced in 1952. Initially only Highways 400, 401 and 402 were numbered; other designations followed in the subsequent decades. Modern 400-series highways have high design standards, speed limits of 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph), and various collision avoidance and traffic management systems. The design of 400-series highways has set the precedent for a number of innovations used throughout North America, including the parclo interchange and a modified Jersey barrier design known as the Ontario Tall Wall. (Full list...)

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The Leica Standard was the fourth version of the 35 mm Leica Camera to be launched from Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany. Conceived by Oskar Barnack in 1913, the camera began production in 1925, but did not receive full-scale production until the end of the decade. It was introduced as a basic model and in production at the same time as the Leica II and Leica III.

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